Martha Stewart – Corner Loop Punch Tutorial

YIKESSSSS!!! Ok…this is my first tutorial – EVAH — se be kind! LOL – I’m no master so if the instructions are clear as mud – I apologize – leave me a comment and I’ll try to explain better. I’m trampling into unfamiliar territory here!

Many of you have asked me to tell you HOW I used my Martha Stewart Loop Corner Punch to punch the effect in a circle as seen on these two cards. Well, I did two different things and I’ll show you each one.

but first what you will need is:

Circle punch or template to cut circle (any size will do – as you will see my first size is 4.5 but it works on 2 inch punch just as well)

Glue

Scissors or paper trimmer

Martha Stewart Loop Corner Punch

Ok – now that the basics are down – lets get to the FUN details! 😉

First for this card:

Directions:

Punch or create circle

Use the MS punch as an edger (if you have the edger and not the corner punch you could also use this) -as shown in pic. 1

Cut each loop section separately- shown in pic.2

Adhere to back of punched circle – pic. 3

Flip circle over and get finished result – pic. 4

Picture 1: Use the corner punch by creating and edge - this doesn't have to punched perfectly since it will be cut apart

Easy enough right? Good.

Now for this card:

You will see I used a different technique to create a different effect by leaving the triangle “space”. This is done when lining up to punch the circle as you will see in the next set of pictures.

You will need the same supplies as above but this time there is no cutting each loop section! This one goes a little quicker once you get the hang of lining it up.

Directions:

Punch or create your circle – pic. 1

Use your MS corner punch to punch your first set of loop – pic. 2

Line up your next punch by putting the triangle edge in the space left from the first punch – pic. 3 & 4

continue to line each punch around the circle being careful to also keep your biggest loop lined up around the edge of your circle until you have gone full circle – pic 5

Picture 1- this circle measures 4 1/2 but you can do this with any size circle punch

Picture 2 - this is your first punch - be sure to keep the longest loop close to the edge of your circle

Picture 3 – Lin up the corner edge with the the last punched edge as shown – also be sure to keep that longest loop as close to edge of circle as possible

Picture 4: Continue to punch around the edge of your circle using the same method

And that is it. Pretty easy but it does take practice and numerous tries to get the punches lined up correctly. I hope this is clear and informative for you and has inspired you to break out your punch!!!

Drop me a line and tell me if this tutorial worked for you and link me up to your creation! I’d love to see it!

ooooooooooooooo look at you go!!!! and what a wonderful ideas -3 o f them to boot woo hoo!!!!. i never “got” punches and when i used thought they came out lame. i need to revise my opinion b/c this totally rocks. thanks!!!!

Renne, thanks for posting this. I saw your card on Two Peas and had to try it. Just got the punches today. I was able to do the circle the second way with only a couple nicks the on the first try! AWESOME!

Hi! I love this method of decorating a card and have used it for squares as well as circles. I watched a tutorial using one of MS’s corner punches that when finished the centre of the circle fell away and just left the “frame”. It was a 3/4″ punch but I don’t know what it was called. Have you ever seen the demo? I can’t find it on her web site anymore.

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